Presumably you’ll need a SIM card compatible with bands in the areas you’ll be traveling in. If your US SIM works on those bands, and your mobile provider allows international roaming, then you could conceivably get by with your normal SIM… but the costs could turn out to be astronomical. If so, consider a SIM from a less expensive provider, either local (in the EU) or international.
It means that there are letters “B”, “A” and “D” used to denote firmware variant, used in this particular order. It’s not a word and it’s not meant to be read as such.
Thanks. I really appreciate the confirmation on this, this seems like best case scenario for me then.
I think you are more correct than I am. In passing, I must have read VoLTE checkbox as an indication it was being supported. That is probably incorrect. It is probably simply telling me the user toggle is on:
Obviously if I ever change providers, I would probably not change to Google because they are Google and got too powerful or whatever. If they dont work internationally now that I finally am going to use the international feature, I’ll probably just drop them as a provider.
I hope you take your other modem with you and have have time to test using both. The modems, although regional, have overlap in their frequencies, so basic services should work (in most areas). You could verify this. A separate question is which network in your target country is compatible/accepting with the modem to their network. The good thing for you is that we mostly have more options here on that front.
Btw. here we have legislation capping the roaming charges but that probably only covers our side. Roaming may also have different kinds of charges for calls and mobile data, so remember to check those switches on your mobile settings.
Enjoy your trip and remember that emergency services number is 112.
Right, so, in the United States, my cellular provider doesn’t charge or handle “roaming” and “data” differently in any meaningful way I could tell. I just toggle those switches randomly and sometimes it would make mobile data work.
What I’m seeing so far in Europe, anecdotally, is that Data and Texting both work fine, but only in Crimson. This could totally be small sample size and bad luck, standing in the wrong place with Byzantium; been moving.
But I haven’t checked my billing. So, you figure that “data” and “roaming” are two different things to some people as a mechanism to induce fees in other [European?] countries? I’ll have to read about it, I guess.
I tried booting back to Byzantium again and yet again it made internet stop working. It repeatedly shows the 2G or 4G or 3G icon as if it was going to work, but then unlike Crimson dual boot it just busts when I try to use it and drops connection or something.
Better verify. Who’s your provider?